A whale was found with a harpoon from the 1800s still in its body. In 2007, Alaskan hunters made a stunning discovery inside a bowhead whale: embedded in its flesh were fragments of a 19th-century exploding harpoon. Dating between 1885 and 1895, the weapon revealed that the whale had survived a whaling attempt over a century earlier—living with the harpoon lodged in its body for more than 100 years. That means the whale was at least 115 years old, offering tangible proof of what scientists alrea

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